Ive got work experience on Monday… Kmn🙄
The next day:
Sure enough, the Larry conspiracy had returned, not that it had ever really gone away.
Thousands upon thousands of people had re tweeted and shared the video caught by one of the fans from inside Starbucks yesterday, and both Louis and Harry had a swarm of notifications regarding the situation.
Management were not happy. They had called a meeting for this afternoon and only Louis and Harry were allowed to attend. Louis thought it was a bit drastic, like really? A whole damn meeting just because some random person called them their ship name? Pathetic.
So that’s why Louis and Harry we’re now situated in a huge office being stared at by 9 members of the team as well as Simon. Wasn’t this going to be fun.
“I’m assuming you know why your here” Simon said in a strict tone.
“Yup, don’t really see the need for a whole meeting though, you making a big deal out of nothing” Louis sassily replied, Harry had to hide his smirk.
“Cut it with the attitude. We clearly said yesterday we didn’t want these stupid rumours starting up again, so why don’t you explain to us why you thought it was a good idea for the two of you to be seen alone in a public place?” Simon asked sternly.
“Technically we weren’t alone. Paul and the camera guy were right behind us” Louis corrected with a faux smile covering his face.
“Just answer the damn question and stop wasting our time” A member of management cut in, taking over Simons roll.
“We wanted drinks, Liam suggested it was best for us two to go inside as Louis can remember all the orders and I can carry the drinks back, some girl serving us thought it would be funny to write our ship name on the cup, and when the guy called it out it gained everyone else’s attention. Not exactly our fault here is it?” Harry explained in an angered tone, frustrated with taking the blame 24/7.
“Did you not use your common fucking sense and think about the consequences of going in there together?” Another woman from management said.
“Oh for fuck sake, back off will you? We’ve explained ourselves, which we shouldn’t have had to do in the first place, and even when there’s clearly no fault in our actions you find a way to pin it on us anyway! Have you ever stepped back to notice the bloody rumours never went away? They’ve been believing this since 2010, no matter how many stunts you pull or how distant you try make us, they’re going to carry on believing this wether you like it or not” Louis huffed out, sticking up not only for himself but for Harry too.
No matter how bad of terms they were on, he wouldn’t let someone talk shit to Harrys face.
Everyone was silent in the room after his little rant, clearly not expecting such words to come out of his mouth, and definitely not expecting every word to be the truth.
Harry looked around and saw a few people trying to come up with some witty comment to prove Louis wrong, mouths opening and closing like fish out of water, but still, no one spoke up.
They had been told and they couldn’t think up a single thing to contradict his statement with. Harry and Louis just sat back and smirked, knowing they had finally won a disagreement with management.
“Whatever, your free to go, don’t let this happen again” The head lady of management announced, breaking the silence in the room.
Louis and Harry both swiftly got up out of their chairs, exiting through the main door and were driven back to the hotel.
The next day:
Today the lads had to get up bright and early as they had a shoot with Ben for their tour promo video.
They didn’t know what to expect as Simon had only briefly mentioned what would be happening at that meal a few weeks back. All Louis knew was there would be a lot of voice over recording and old memories.
Louis chose to wear a casual white hoodie with some mustard yellow trackies and white sneakers. He thought he may as well be comfy for the time being until he is inevitably told to wear a certain outfit.
Louis made his way downstairs to see the lads already waiting for him. Late again, well done tommo.
“Took your time” Niall said with a smirk.
“Fuck off you looser” He replied back.
The ride to the filming studio was short and they had been told they were meeting Ben and his camera crew at the location, once they got there they would be told what they were going to need to do and what lines to read.
“Long time no see lads” Ben exclaimed, greeting them all with a hug and a pat on their backs.
“Same to you” Liam replied.
“Alright we don’t have much time so we need to get started, we can chit chat more later on” he informed them, gaining nods in return.
“So the plan is, we take a song from your last album that you don’t yet have a video for and use the chorus, we find old videos and pictures of you from each year leading up to the split and re create them, the old video or picture will be shown next to your recreated one with the song playing over the top, so it’s sort of like a mini music video but not really” he explained briefly.
“Sounds wicked” Louis said brightly, loving the idea already.
However, they weren’t looking forward to the old outfits they are surely going to have to wear. Just the thought of his old read jeans makes Louis shiver.
“Great, so we’ve got the first photo ready if you’d like to go and change into your outfits, We called Louise here to help, she’s just over there” he said gesturing to the far corner of the room which had countless racks of clothing standing amongst her.
Lou spotted the boys immediately and called them over, waving at them excitedly.
“Oh my god this is so fun, I get to see you in your old outfits again!” She exclaimed happily, making the realisation hit the boys and causing them to groan.
“Don’t remind us” Zayn said with a sigh.
“Oh come on it can’t be that bad, here are your outfits, go change in them rooms to your left and meet back out here when your done” she said excitedly.
The boys were handed their individual outfits and walked into the room she had pointed out, it happened to be a changing room that you would normally find in a school gym, with benches lining the walls and showers opposite them.
Louis took a glance at his outfit and immediately groaned, rolling his eyes as he was reluctant to put the awful garments on.
“That bad huh?” Niall said to him with a chuckle.
“Don’t even get me started. Honestly what was I thinking? A cardigan? Really? Why didn’t you guys tell me my fashion sense was so bad?” Louis exclaimed, cringing at the thought of his old wardrobe.
“To be honest we all had shit fashion sense back then, none of us could have given you any good advice” Niall replied back with a shrug.
“I hope harry finds a way to travel back in time so he can knock some of his fashion sense into me” Liam stated, causing the green eyes man to huff out a small laugh.
Harry seemed to be in a slightly better mood today, although he was still quite reserved, not speaking much. It confused Louis and he wanted to know why the sudden change in behaviour but decided against it, not wanting to cause any drama before the shoot.
When Louis was finally dressed he found himself wearing his outfit from the first ever photo the band had taken together.
He wore black baggy pants rolled at the ankles, a grey t shirt, a white/light grey cardigan and a dark grey scarf, paired with a red beanie and some toms. All he could think was how disgraceful he looked, and he wore this on auditions day too?! What was he thinking.
He glanced over to see the other lads had changed into their outfits as well.
First he saw Zayn, who was wearing denim jeans and a grey sweater, not as bad as it could have been to be honest.
Next was Niall, he had on a white and blue shirt covered by a black sweater and a pair of blue baggy jeans.
Then there was Liam, with probably the most decent outfit out of the five. He wore a grey t shirt with a lighter shirt unbuttoned all the way over the top of it and a pair of jeans again.
The last person Louis laid eyes on was Harry, and he was hit with their old memories from X factor all at once at the sight of him.
Harry wore a green polo shirt and a grey cardigan, with some dark jeans and lastly a grey beanie perched on top of his head.
Harry turned and caught Louis staring, but instead of lashing out with witty comments, he mirrored Louis, gazing at him with a fond look in his eyes, remembering all the memories they shared while they used to look this way.
They used to look this way when fans hadn’t noticed their change, when Simon was nicer, when management didn’t want to ruin them, when stunts weren’t pulled every few days, when they could hug, hold hands, whisper sweet nothings into each other’s ears while on stage. When they were happy.
It almost felt like if they were to look like they did back then, it could be like it was back then. Louis wanted to believe that 100%, but he couldn’t. Because deep down he knew nothing would be the same, and a few outfit changes couldn’t fix what was broken.
With a sad look they both turned and left the room, following behind the rest of the lads to join Lou again.
“Jesus Christ! You all look so different” she said with a look of fond mixed with disbelief.
“You look like babies awwww” she carried on with a chuckle.
“Stoppp” Louis said, covering his face and turning to try and get away, but Lou stopped him by grabbing his arm and turning him to face her.
“Don’t be embarrassed hun, if you can’t face me like that how will you react when this is posted for the fans ey?” She said pointedly.
“You just had to say that didn’t you?” He replied back with a huff.
“Oi, Get over here we need to take the picture!” Ben shouted from the other side of the room where they were setting up equipment.
They saw that the back drop had been set up to look like the same exact stairs they had taken the original photo on, giving them all a sense of nostalgia.
“Wait!” Lou called just as they were about to get ready for the photo.
She came running over holding some form of stickers, shaped into rectangles. Louis quickly realised it was their X factor numbers that they would need to stick into their shirts.
“You remember your numbers right, cause I honestly have no idea who’s is for who” she said with a nervous look.
“Course we do” Zayn replies, taking the stickers and handing them out to the boys for them to place on their shirts.
“Alright, Louis, Liam and Niall I need you sat on the steps behind Harry and Zayn. Harry you’re sat in front of Louis and Zayn your sat in front of Niall. Liam your back middle” Ben instructed.
The lads organised themselves how they had been told and then had a last chance to look at the original photo to make sure they were pulling the correct faces and their posture was correct.
“Alright 5,4,3,2,1 and smile” Ben said to them from behind the camera.
They had to repeat this at least 10 times, just to be sure they had gotten the correct photo. Once they were finished they all stood up straight and stretched, it was not comfortable staying in the same position for more than necessary.
“Okay great, I think we got it, now go change again we’ve got this photo to take next”
And then he pulled out a picture to show them, a picture which consisted of them leaning against one another. Yeh, wasn’t gonna be awkward at all.
Author notes:
Chapter it a little longer tonight seeming as it’s the weekend tomorrow and decided to stay up later to write this for you guys:)
I’m actually so nervous for work experience, like it’s not even funny, anyone else had to do this in their schools?:/
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Love you all xxx
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